Cigar perforator



Filed June 13, 19h52 lin Illlllllllllll Patented May 23, 1933 AUGUST E. KIVIKINK, OF INDIANA HARBOR, INDIANA CIGAR PErFOR-ATOR Application filed June 13,

This invention relates to a device for use in perfor-ating the end of a cigar as a step preliminary to smoking it, and particularly a perforator of known type in which a broach, mounted in the end of a plunger, is pressed to its duty by telescoping the plunger. within a barrel and against a spring which retracts the plunger and broach when pressure upon the plunger is relieved.

The invention has for its object to provide an improved construction of device operating upon this principle, one which can be cheaply provided in efficient and durable form, one which will have a hollow broach for remov ing a core of the cigar substance as an incident to forming the perforation, and one which will have conveniently associated with it, in position for removal and use, a cleaning rod that will enter the hollow of the broach from front to rear and displace from it cores accumulating therein as a result of the perforating action.

In the accompanying drawing-- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the complete device; and

Figure 2 is a similar view showing the cleaning rod removed from carrying position and in position of use.

1 represents a barrel which terminates in a ared ferrule 2 adapted to receive the end of the cigar to be perforated, and which houses a spring 3, seated against a shoulder 4 and reacting against the enlarged end 5 of a plunger 6. The enlarged end 5 of plunger 6 fits in the internal bore of the barrel 1, and a broach 7 lits a reduced bore 8 through the shoulder 4, and has its inner end irmly fixed in the inserted end of the plunger so that the plunger and broach move in an accurate path in the barrel 1, and the broach may be eX truded from the barrel and caused to enter the cigar in response to pressure upon the outer end of the plunger, or withdrawn from the cigar and retired within the barrel under the reaction of the spring when pressure upon the plunger is relieved. Plunger 6 is confined in barrel 1 by means of a gland 9 threaded into the upper end of the barrel, as shown at 10, and engaging the enlargement 1932. Serial N0. 616,817.

5 on said plunge; said gland being provided with a marginal liange 11 through which it may be rotated in assembling the gland with the barrel.

Plunger 6 has a pressure head 12 to which i the thumb of the user may be conveniently applied while holding the barrel 1 between and resting its flange 1l against the first and second fingers. Pressure head 12, however, serves an additional function, in that it is releasably mounted on the plunger 6 through means of screw thread 13, and has mounted in it a cleaning rod 14 housedv within the plunger normally immovable relatively to the plunger and breach and adapted, when withdrawnwith the head 12, to be manipulated through the cutting end and into the bore of the broach 7, as suggested in Figure 2, for

the purpose of cleaning the latter when it bei r comes fouled with cores of cigar substance accumulating therein as a result of its use.

Broach V7 is mounted in the plunger 6 through means of liller piece 15, .and cleaning rodr14 may be of suliicient length to normally enter the inner hollow end of said broach, thus assisting to position the rod. The main portion of plunger 6 is left with a materially greater diameter than the bore of the broach, so that when the cleaning rod 14 is inserted from the forward end of the broach, the displaced cores of cigar substance will readily fall out of the plunger, the pressure head 12, which carries the cleaning rod, being at that time absent.

As suggested in Figure 2, the cleaning rod, if thrust all the way into the broach 7 will be arrested by the pressure head 12 engaging the reduced portion of the ferrule 2. From this position, however, the cleaning'rod may be readily recovered by pressing the plunger 6 into the barrel 1 until the head 12 is exposed within reach beyond the ferrule 2.

I claim:

1. In a cigar perforator, a barrel, a plunger mounted for longitudinal movement on said barrel, a hollow broach carried by said plunger and located within the barrel, said plunger, by its said movement, extruding the penetrating end of the broach from the barrel, and a cleaning rod having a dimension eci which admits it within the broaoh, said cleaning rod being carried by and normally stationary relatively to the plunger and broach but removable therefrom and adapted to be intruded through the cutting end into said broach to clean the broach.

2. In a cigar perforator, a barrel, a hollow plunger having one end inserted vin the barrel and carrying a broach, said plunger working in said barrel and adapted to extrude the penetrating end of' the broach from the end of the barrel opposite to that at which the hollow plunger is inserted, a cleaning rod housed in the plunger but removable therefrom for insertion through the penetrating end of the broach .to'clean the breach, and an end closure releasably mounted upon Vthe end of .the plunger remote from the barrel, said cleaning rod being carried by said end closure and removable therewith.

' 3. A cigar perforator comprising a barrel constructedat one end with a ferruleV adapted to receive and guide a cigar, a hollow plunger tted upon'said barrel with freedom of longitudinal movement relatively thereto, a broach within'the barrel carried by and movable with the plunger and extruded from the barrel and into 4the ferrule by the longitudinal movement of the plunger, a head releasably fitted to the end of the'plunger'remote from the broa'ch, anda cleaning rod carried by said head and vremovable therewith from the plunger; said rod, when removed from the plunger, being adapted to be intruded into the Vbreach through its perforatingl end a distance that causes the head to'enter the ferrule; said plunger being movable in the barrel independently of the lrod when so intruded; and the broach having a length which eauses it to eject the head from the ferrule by the last-named movement of the plunger. Signed at'Indiana Harbor, Indiana, this 10th day of June, 1932.

' i AUGUSTjE. KIVIKINK. 

